CUBA SHOWS NO SIGN OF RAY'S PLEDGED RETURN, DESPITE RUMORS

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2000
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• Publication Date: May 21, 1964
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WAST-IINGTON POST: MAY 21 1964
NI7 TIMI?S HERALD
Cuba'Shows No Si
,.day without report of any a
1tivity by 39-year-old Manu
Ray, Cuban revolutionary lea
er who had pledged to be bac
on the, island May 20, Cuba
,Independence Day.
In fact, much of the activit
lag place outside.
In Nicaragua, there were i
they are mounting agains
-nat.es at bases other than r
mored sites In central Anne
ica.
High government sources i
Managua discounted news dis-
patches reporting anti-Castro
stagin areas or t r a i n-1.n g
And former President Luis'
Sorpoza, who has been openly
,helping one of the exile lead-
ers, Manuel Artime, said:
."There are no official bases in
Nicaragua; Guatemala or , Cbs-
In Washington, the Citizens
Committee for a Free Cuba
said it had been informed that
some infiltrators e n t e r e'd
Northern Cuba Tuesday night.
The Committee said the
group was small and it woul'dl
be misleading to call the;
operation a landing.'.
,An- organization ofU'S.'`Cit-
gime. The Committer, main. ejal w d "'gliviong oarrage of?
clandestine radio calls for open
tains close -contracts with anti revolt and sabotage that con-'
Castro,Cuban exiles 14 Miami'tinu
d
e
Yesterda
and elsewhere and is usually "artillery y," o r d e r e d
practice i
n western
well inf
d
r
,
orme
on thei
~I ac-
Pinar del Rio Province
tivities. '. and
Jet plane maneuvers" be-
I
7V
n
fiam1 two Cbil tn i
,uan exewec P n a r del Rio and
i
ti
organ
za
ons issued declara-
?tions of wa
r a
h
80 i115 t
e Cas- At the same time, the Cuban
tro regime. But there was no labor movement In eastern
immediate Indication - when Oriente Province decreed
fighting might begin on the
island. total mobilization" for
'A formal warning to'Castro [defense and production and
that.a guerrilla warfare plan Armed._F.orces Minister Raul
is about to be launched by Castro called a. mass rally in
forces headed by exile Major Santiago for Friday night. to
1;loy Gutierrez, Mcnoyo 'was demonstrate popular support
'beamed to Cuba first by short- for the regime.
wave radio. T?uec clandestine broadcasts
Then the Revolutionary at'mid
i
morn
ng in thenamef
` o Junta, headed by Ray, Issued the Revolutionary Student
a "May 20th Proclamation" Directorate called on `Cuban
declaring that "a new war of students to "
join the revolt".
independence is begun on Cu,
ban soil." against Castro ' and urged
the citizenry to undercut the
It called on Castro's troo
ps
and militia' to revolt and islands weakened electric
promised amnesty for them power supply by :leaving the '
nee Castro is overthrown, jlights on.
The proclamation wa:; signer] ' An unusually wide varlet.",
hey' ,"presumed" he was on. and daylight. Some featured.
~ut'they had no confirmation, exhorted Cuban mothers to.,
I
n Cuba; meahilhhi
nwe, te encourage ter sons to rebel.
astro. regime o r d e r e d Cl
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t
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ms'
a
:exile
'com
? Practice", air and artillery batants" are now. on .Cubans
taneuvers acro
,. ri
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trati
rone western Cuba. ,'_ ~..~ `? ?`~ `V`coai
-are ensconced: in -c c e e r t a 1.4
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